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Am I missing something? Between mixers and single-use addresses - not to mention every mundane transaction that hasn't opted into into this tracking scheme - th
by rictic 13y ago
Am I missing something? Between mixers and single-use addresses - not to mention every mundane transaction that hasn't opted into into this tracking scheme - the odds of them being able to say much about a typical address seem practically nonexistent.
I can see some strong similarities to DRM. There are large organizations that would very much like for a technical impossibility to exist, leading some to step forward to sell a fundamentally flawed patchwork to them whose primary impact is inconvenience for end users.
- thwarted 13y agoHas anyone developed the bitcoin equivalent of the "Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem (FUSSP) Response"[0] yet? [0] http://www.dmuth.org/fussp.html http://www.dmuth.org/fussp.html
- alexkus 13y agoIronic given that Bitcoin grew out of the idea of a 'Proof-of-work' token that was proposed as a FUSSP itself.
- vdaniuk 13y agoWell, I am sure that bitcoin transactions follow the power law distribution which means that 99% of transaction volume will belong to 1% of addresses[1]. That makes it possible to track and identify large sellers, exchanges, etc. But tracking p2p transactions? No amount of clever algorithms with their amount of data will thwart anonymization efforts done with,for example, programmatic creation of addresses, random transactions, mixins and offline transactions. [1]obviously not scientific